Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Poetry Quotes

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See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds... Poetry should transport the public/to higher places/than other wheels can carry it...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti